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Many clouds do not always produce heavy showers, neither do the hasty promises of fickle men yield us much good.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
The promises we break are usually such as we are most forward in making.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech, Feb. 22, 1842
- Promise was a pretty maid,
- But being poor she died unwed.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Promises are like fortune's shadows.
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